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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪ̯/
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• /ˈbeː/ monophthongization
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈbæ̝ɪ̯/
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• rhymes with -eɪ
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• homophone: bey
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• homophone: bae (toe–tow merger)
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From Middle English bay, bai, from Old French bai, from Latin badius (“reddish brown, chestnut”).

From Somali [Term?].

From bay.

Etymology tree Iberiander. Late Latin baiader.? French baieder. English bay From French baie, from Late Latin baia, probably ultimately from Iberian or Basque badia. Partly displaced native Old English byht, whence bight.

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *bazją Proto-West Germanic *baʀi Old English berġe? Old English beġerclip.? Old English *beġ Latin bācader. Old French baieder. Middle English baye English bay From Middle English baye, baie, from Old English beġ (“berry”), as in beġbēam (“berry-tree”), conflated with Old French baie, from Latin bāca (“berry”).

From Middle English, from Old French baee, beee, from the verb beer (“gape open”), from Early Medieval Latin batāre. Compare Modern French baie. More at bevel, badinage.

From the root *bai, combined with aphetized form of abay; verbal form of baier, abaier.

268 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: աշխետ (ašxet) — of reddish-brown color
• Catalan: bai — of reddish-brown color
• Czech: hnědočervený — of reddish-brown color
• Esperanto: beja — of reddish-brown color
• Finnish: ruunikko — of reddish-brown color
• French: bai — of reddish-brown color
• Galician: bazo — of reddish-brown color
• Galician: alazán — of reddish-brown color
• German: rotbraun — of reddish-brown color
• German: kastanienbraun — of reddish-brown color
• Irish: donnrua — of reddish-brown color
• Javanese: napas — of reddish-brown color
• Central Kurdish: کوێت (kwêt) — of reddish-brown color
• Central Kurdish: شێ (şê) — of reddish-brown color
• Northern Kurdish: kumêd — of reddish-brown color
• Northern Kurdish: şê — of reddish-brown color
• Latin: badius — of reddish-brown color
• Latvian: bērs — of reddish-brown color
• Lezgi: кияр (kiär) — of reddish-brown color
• Macedonian: дорат (dorat) — of reddish-brown color
• Macedonian: дорија (dorija) — of reddish-brown color
• Malay: perang kemerah-merahan — of reddish-brown color
• Polish: gniady — of reddish-brown color
• Portuguese: alazão — of reddish-brown color
• Russian: гнедо́й (gnedój) — of reddish-brown color
• Spanish: alazán — of reddish-brown color
• Sudovian: bēran — of reddish-brown color
• Turkish: doru — of reddish-brown color
• Welsh: gell — of reddish-brown color
• Chinese Cantonese: 灣區 /湾区 (waan1 keoi1) — area
• Chinese Mandarin: 灣區 /湾区 (Wānqū) — area
• Spanish: La Bahía — bay
• Afrikaans: baai — body of water
• Albanian: zgjiç — body of water
• Albanian: gji — body of water
• Aleut: udax̂ — body of water
• Southern Altai: булуҥ (buluŋ) — body of water
• Arabic: خَلِيج (ḵalīj) — body of water
• Arabic: شَرْم (šarm) — body of water
• Arabic: خُور (ḵūr) — body of water
• Arabic: جُون (jūn, jōn) — body of water
• Arabic: خليج (ḵalīg) — body of water
• Arabic: شرم (šarm) — body of water
• Arabic: جون (jōn) — body of water
• Arabic: خليج (ḵalīj) — body of water
• Armenian: ծոց (cocʻ) — body of water
• West Coast Bajau: lo'ok — body of water
• Bashkir: ҡултыҡ (qultıq) — body of water
• Basque: badia — body of water
• Belarusian: залі́ў (zalíw) — body of water
• Belarusian: бу́хта (búxta) — body of water
• Bau Bidayuh: toruok — body of water
• Central Bikol: itiot — body of water
• Bulgarian: за́лив (záliv) — body of water
• Burmese: ပင်လယ်အော် (panglaiau) — body of water
• Catalan: badia — body of water
• Cherokee: ᎥᏓᎵ (vdali) — body of water
• Chinese Mandarin: 海灣 /海湾 (hǎiwān) — body of water
• Chinese Mandarin: 灣 /湾 (wān) — body of water
• Czech: záliv — body of water
• Czech: zátoka — body of water
• Danish: bugt — body of water
• Dutch: baai — body of water
• Esperanto: golfeto — body of water
• Estonian: laht — body of water
• Faroese: vík — body of water
• Faroese: flógvi — body of water
• Finnish: lahti — body of water
• Finnish: merenlahti — body of water
• French: baie — body of water
• Galician: badía — body of water
• Galician: angra — body of water
• Galician: abra — body of water
• Galician: ría — body of water
• Georgian: უბე (ube) — body of water
• Georgian: ყურე (q̇ure) — body of water
• German: Bucht — body of water
• Greek: κόλπος (kólpos) — body of water
• Ancient Greek: κόλπος (kólpos) — body of water
• Gujarati: ખાડી (khāḍī) — body of water
• Hawaiian: kai kūʻono — body of water
• Hawaiian: kūʻono — body of water
• Hebrew: מפרץ (mifráts) — body of water
• Hindi: खाड़ी (khāṛī) — body of water
• Hungarian: öböl — body of water
• Icelandic: vík — body of water
• Inuktitut: kangiqluk (kangiqluk) — body of water
• Irish: bá — body of water
• Old Irish: ucht — body of water
• Italian: baia — body of water
• Italian: golfo — body of water
• Jamaican Creole: bie — body of water
• Japanese: 湾 (wan) — body of water
• Japanese: 入江 (irie) — body of water
• Javanese: lempongan — body of water
• Javanese: teluk — body of water
• Javanese: segara anakan — body of water
• Khmer: ឈូងសមុទ្រ (choong samot) — body of water
• Korean: 만 (man) — body of water
• Northern Kurdish: kendav — body of water
• Kyrgyz: булуң (buluŋ) — body of water
• Lao: ອ່າວ (ʼāo) — body of water
• Latin: baia — body of water
• Latin: sinus — body of water
• Latvian: līcis — body of water
• Lithuanian: įlanka — body of water
• Macedonian: залив (zaliv) — body of water
• Malay: teluk — body of water
• Maltese: bajja — body of water
• Maltese: qala — body of water
• Māori: kokoru — body of water
• Māori: whanga — body of water
• Massachusett: pootupag — body of water
• Central Melanau: teluok — body of water
• Norman: baie — body of water
• Norwegian: bukt — body of water
• Old English: byht — body of water
• Persian: خلیج (xalij) — body of water
• Polish: zatoka — body of water
• Portuguese: baía — body of water
• Punjabi: ਖਾੜੀ (khāṛī) — body of water
• Rapa Nui: haŋa — body of water
• Romanian: golf — body of water
• Russian: зали́в (zalív) — body of water
• Russian: бу́хта (búxta) — body of water
• Scottish Gaelic: bàgh — body of water
• Serbo-Croatian: залив — body of water
• Serbo-Croatian: zaljev — body of water
• Serbo-Croatian: zaliv — body of water
• Serbo-Croatian: uvala — body of water
• Slovak: záliv — body of water
• Slovene: zaliv — body of water
• Spanish: bahía — body of water
• Swahili: ghuba — body of water
• Swedish: bukt — body of water
• Swedish: golf — body of water
• Swedish: vik — body of water
• Tagalog: look — body of water
• Tamil: விரிகுடா (virikuṭā) — body of water
• Ternate: jiko — body of water
• Thai: อ่าว (àao) — body of water
• Turkish: koy — body of water
• Ottoman Turkish: كورفز (körfez) — body of water
• Ukrainian: зато́ка (zatóka) — body of water
• Ukrainian: бу́хта (búxta) — body of water
• Urdu: خلیج (xalīj) — body of water
• Vietnamese: vịnh — body of water
• Volapük: bug — body of water
• Welsh: bae — body of water
• Yámana: waya — body of water
• Zazaki: zag — body of water
• Bulgarian: лаврово дърво (lavrovo dǎrvo) — shrub
• Catalan: llorer — shrub
• Dutch: laurier — shrub
• Finnish: laakeripuu — shrub
• French: laurier — shrub
• Galician: loureiro — shrub
• Galician: gamallo — shrub
• Galician: louro — shrub
• Georgian: დაფნა (dapna) — shrub
• German: Lorbeer — shrub
• Greek: δάφνη (dáfni) — shrub
• Ancient Greek: δάφνη (dáphnē) — shrub
• Hungarian: babér — shrub
• Icelandic: lárviður — shrub
• Irish: labhróg — shrub
• Italian: alloro — shrub
• Latvian: lauru koks — shrub
• Macedonian: лавор (lavor) — shrub
• Norwegian: laurbær — shrub
• Portuguese: loureiro — shrub
• Portuguese: louro — shrub
• Russian: лавр (lavr) — shrub
• Russian: лавро́вое де́рево (lavróvoje dérevo) — shrub
• Serbo-Croatian: lovor — shrub
• Slovene: lovor — shrub
• Spanish: laurel — shrub
• Welsh: llawrwydd — shrub
• Welsh: llawrwyf — shrub
• Basque: nitxo — compartment
• Bulgarian: ни́ша (níša) — compartment
• Finnish: syvennys — compartment
• Finnish: nissi — compartment
• French: compartiment — compartment
• French: baie — compartment
• Georgian: განყოფილება (ganq̇opileba) — compartment
• Greek: διαμέρισμα (diamérisma) — compartment
• Hungarian: rekesz — compartment
• Hungarian: fülke — compartment
• Italian: vano — compartment
• Latvian: niša — compartment
• Macedonian: ниша (niša) — compartment
• Polish: luk — compartment
• Portuguese: vão — compartment
• Portuguese: baia — compartment
• Romanian: nișă — compartment
• Russian: отсе́к (otsék) — compartment
• Russian: ни́ша (níša) — compartment
• Spanish: plataforma — compartment
• Spanish: muelle — compartment
• Ukrainian: відсі́к (vidsík) — compartment
• Bulgarian: просвет (prosvet) — distance between two supports in a vault
• French: travée — distance between two supports in a vault
• Greek: κλίτος (klítos) — distance between two supports in a vault
• Polish: luka — distance between two supports in a vault
• Polish: nisza — distance between two supports in a vault
• Portuguese: tramo — distance between two supports in a vault
• Portuguese: intercolúnio — distance between two supports in a vault
• Russian: пролёт (proljót) — distance between two supports in a vault
• Russian: просве́т (prosvét) — distance between two supports in a vault
• Russian: ни́ша (níša) — distance between two supports in a vault
• Finnish: haukku — excited barking
• French: aboiement — excited barking
• French: clabaudage — excited barking
• Ancient Greek: ὑλαγμός (hulagmós) — excited barking
• Hungarian: csaholás — excited barking
• Irish: tafann — excited barking
• Latvian: rejas — excited barking
• Occitan: abaiament — excited barking
• Occitan: abaiada — excited barking
• Armenian: աշխետ (ašxet) — brown colour/color
• Bashkir: туры (turı) — brown colour/color
• Bulgarian: дорест (dorest) — brown colour/color
• Catalan: bai — brown colour/color
• Chinese Mandarin: 紅褐色 /红褐色 (hónghésè) — brown colour/color
• Finnish: rautias — brown colour/color
• Hungarian: pej — brown colour/color
• Indonesian: kapisa — brown colour/color
• Japanese: 赤褐色 — brown colour/color
• Javanese: napas — brown colour/color
• Malay: perang kemerah-merahan — brown colour/color
• Polish: maść gniada — brown colour/color
• Portuguese: alazão — brown colour/color
• Russian: гнедо́й (gnedój) — brown colour/color
• Spanish: alazán — brown colour/color
• Turkish: doru — brown colour/color
• Armenian: աշխետ (ašxet) — reddish-brown horse
• Czech: hnědák — reddish-brown horse
• Finnish: rautias — reddish-brown horse
• Finnish: raudikko — reddish-brown horse
• Hungarian: pej — reddish-brown horse
• Irish: donnrua — reddish-brown horse
• Latvian: bēris — reddish-brown horse
• Malay: kuda perang kemerah-merahan — reddish-brown horse
• Māori: pei — reddish-brown horse
• Navajo: łį́į́łchíʼí — reddish-brown horse
• Polish: gniady — reddish-brown horse
• Polish: gniadosz — reddish-brown horse
• Portuguese: alazão — reddish-brown horse
• Romanian: murg — reddish-brown horse
• Spanish: alazán — reddish-brown horse
• Spanish: alazana — reddish-brown horse
• Catalan: udolar — to howl
• Czech: štěkat — to howl
• Czech: lát — to howl
• Finnish: haukkua — to howl
• Finnish: ulista — to howl
• French: aboyer — to howl
• French: clabauder — to howl
• Irish: bí ag tafann — to howl
• Occitan: abaiar — to howl
• Serbo-Croatian: лајати — to howl
• Serbo-Croatian: lajati — to howl
• Czech: štěkat — to howl at
• Czech: poštěkávat — to howl at
• Finnish: haukkua — to howl at
• Serbo-Croatian: лајати на — to howl at
• Serbo-Croatian: lajati na — to howl at